Dominic drove toward home. The abandoned dog with nothing but troubles in the world reminded him of a biblical figure: Job, the poster boy for remaining faithful in the face of misery.
Dominic named the dog with a variation on the spelling: Jobe.
“Job remained loyal,” Dominic said. “Jobe’s been through tough times. So why not?”
The boy had no idea how steadfast a friend the mangy creature would become. He headed home to talk his parents, Teresa and Mark Wiederin, into letting him keep the dog.
It was not an easy sell.
The family’s northwest Omaha home already was bustling with six children, all but one younger than Dominic, and a pint-size canine dictator named Gunther. The little white Maltese-Papillon alpha dog believes he runs the house. He’s not afraid to bite bigger dogs to show them who’s boss.
Dominic was busy, too. He was a junior at Roncalli High School. He played football. He had a construction job.
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I went to the Nevada Museum of Art's exhibition of Rembrandt's etchings, which are from the collection of the Museum of Art, Boston. It's quite an impressive collection.
I guess during his lifetime, his etchings were more celebrated. Now it's his paintings.
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It was fifty years ago today the Clutter family of Kansas was brutally murdered, and their case was later memorialized by Truman Capote in his book In Cold Blood.
The murders were quite sensational for the time; of course society was a lot more stable then than now, and murders of this type were rare.
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